Abject Learning

A good morning’s work, originally uploaded by MrGluSniffer.
The above image represents a snapshot of about two hours out of two days of intense dialogue with my primary host here at the UOC, Julià...

a line of screens, originally uploaded by phitar.
Note: this was mostly written last Friday, and I only write here a small fraction of what I wanted… But I do not want to hold this post hostage unt...

Sometimes you slave over a post that you hope will get people thinking and clicking and get no response. Other times, something dashed off in a moment seems to connect with people for mostly inexpl...

self-titled, originally uploaded by procsilas.

I'm sitting in the opening session of the UOC UNESCO Chair in E-Learning Fifth International Seminar on Fighting the Digital Divide through Educati...

I hate grading, and as a result don't think enough about the potent and vital role of assessment in learning. I admit it's a shortcoming.
On the train back to Barcelona from the IN3 offices yester...

Plaça Catalunya - Barcelona HDR, originally uploaded by MorBCN.
I haven’t blogged about it yet, because for some reason this opportunity seemed too good to be true. But here I undoubtedly am, in t...

Generally, Halloween makes me think even better of my neighbourhood. The kids running around are terrifyingly cute, of course. And it's hard not to get a warm feeling from the generosity and evid...

Financial turmoil - whichever way you look at it!, originally uploaded by canonsnapper.

No question, a bad week for some traditional media heavyweights:
It’s been an especially rotten few days f...

Dead iPhone, originally uploaded by mikeykrieger.
So, a few weeks ago I acquired a certain much-discussed handheld telecommunications device made by a certain corporation based in Cupertino. It wa...

I mentioned a couple posts back that we are running some courseblogs this semester on WordPress, with a range of approaches and configurations. One of these courses has all of the students working ...